Minty Boost && FreeRunner

Tilman Baumann tilman at baumann.name
Thu Nov 20 15:28:12 CET 2008


Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Thursday, November 20, 2008 a las 02:04:22PM +0100, Tilman Baumann escribió:
> 
>> Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>> El día Thursday, November 20, 2008 a las 01:47:43PM +0100, Tilman Baumann 
>>> escribió:
>>>
>>>> Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>>>> El día Monday, September 22, 2008 a las 11:17:58PM +0200, Matthias Apitz 
>>>>> escribió:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Stacy,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've stumbled over your page http://www.millions.ca/~stacy/mintyboost/
>>>>>> and as an owner of the FreeRunner I will build this nice box; thanks for
>>>>>> your pioneer work on this; ...
>>>> Shouldn't it be easy to add this 'wall charger indicator resistor' to 
>>>> the mintyboost circuit?
>>>> I don't remember where that resistor needs to go, but this can be 
>>>> researched on the wiki...
>>> What would be the bennefit of this? I'm not an electronic guy anymore
>>> :-(
>> 1A charging out of the box with no software needed.
> 
> Here is what the Wiki page says:
> 
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_Battery
> 
>     «DIY external battery pack from a Minty case 
>     Mintyboost: 
>     Charge from a couple of AA batteries: Minty Boost!, report on a Neo
>     FreeRunner application. 
>     Adding the 47k resistor to the minty boost so that the Freerunner fast
>     charges at 1A is a poor idea for a couple reasons, the biggest one being
>     that the minty boost can't supply 1A the max is 600mA.

Ups, that's a pitty. I did not anticipate this.


>     Even if the Linear Technology step up voltage converter is supposed to
>     be able to do 600mA, the AA cells seem to have a problem with supplying
>     500mA. They get a little toasty :-). One powerpack built using D cells
>     doesn't seem to have any issues with supplying 500mA.»
Well, Batteries usually put out a great much of current without 
suffering too much.
I could not find any specifications (which of course vary) on a short 
notice, but I don't think that 5W (plus a little bit loss in the 
converter) is too much.

Maybe we just need to make a heavy duty mintyboost with a bigger 
converter...

> My FR switches outomagically to 1A charging mode, but maybe it's better
> to only use 500mA

Probably. The reports of hearing the converter when it is under load 
support this.



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